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No brewery works in a silo. Brewers Association staff, including Chief Economist Bart Watson, keep close tabs on the statistics and trends that affect the entire craft brewing community. Keep up with the latest numbers to ensure the success and growth of your business using the resources in this category.

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Packaging Trends
Packaging Trends
The New Brewer: Packaging Issue

Packaging Trends

Mike Kallenberger

The history of package mix in beer has been a dance of the respective market shares of cans and bottles, each growing and declining in response to long-term trends.

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Insights & Analysis

Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap, 2020

Here's an update on packaging trends in 2020. While levels rose almost across the board, some of the share shifts were more predictable than you might expect.Read More

Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

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Gen Z
Insights & Analysis

Gen Z Comes of Age with New Preferences

Some members of Gen Z are now 21+. How will their preferences differ from the Millennial generation and what does that mean for small brewers?Read More

Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

See Bart Watson's Articles
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Insights & Analysis

Brewery Visit Data Suggests Customers Are Visiting Less But Spending More

At-the-brewery sales have declined, but there is variation both across breweries and over time. While visits are down, spending per visit is up.Read More

Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

See Bart Watson's Articles
BA Insider
Industry Updates

Craft Is Vital to Beer Selection

See why craft is still a critical part of any beer retailer's assortment as a profit driver, basket builder, and source of retailtainment.Read More

Brewers Association

The Marketing Development Committee works to build awareness for the vitality of the craft beer segment through media and vehicles such as tradeshows, publications, sell sheets, and events. The member-run committee creates opportunities for independent brewers to meet chain buyers and distributors, provides educational and sales tools for distributors and retailers to continue to build craft, and creates initiatives to profitably and responsibly grow the share of craft in all retail classes of trade.

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e-commerce
Insights & Analysis

Can E-Commerce Break the Tyranny of Space?

What does the future look like for the long tail of beer? Bart Watson thinks through the reasons it's hard to find a clear answer right now.Read More

Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

See Bart Watson's Articles
Beverage Alcohol Consumption Tracks Demographic and Economic Changes
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Beverage Alcohol Consumption Tracks Demographic and Economic Changes

Media reports on beverage alcohol often use data in inconsistent or misleading ways to tell a narrative. To demonstrate, Bart Watson looks at the the demographic and economic factors driving beverage alcohol consumption over the past 20 years.Read More

Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

See Bart Watson's Articles
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